BIG WHITE, BRITISH COLUMBIA (MARCH 29, 2013) – Two IPC para-snowboard World Cups were hosted this week at Big White Ski Resort under stellar conditions. Presented on the same course as the Sport Chek Snowboardcross National Championships ongoing all week, six Canadians made their way into the top-10 during the two competitions.

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On Thursday’s World Cup, the 2009 World Champion Tyler Mosher from Whistler, BC was just shy of the podium finishing in third position. Ontario’s John […]

Tyler Mosher now has a good sense of what it will take to become a Paralympic champion one year from now.

The Whistler snowboarder finished fifth in the men’s lower limb impairment class at the test event in Sochi, Russia, last Thursday (March 7) on a course that Mosher likes and feels he will be competitive on during the 2014 Games.

I am so excited to race around the world this year achieving new goals at a higher level than ever before. Twenty-Thirteen is kicking off as a great start to something very special for me. It is a year where I have started a couple (too many) goal achieving processes that I hope to actually enjoy or at least focus more on enjoying the actual process of the achievable goals I have set for myself. […]

The 2012/2013 Season is going to be an exciting year as I train for the first ever Snowboard Medal Event at the Winter Paralympic Games in 2014. Sochi Russia looks amazing and it will be such a unique experience. After representing my country and doing my best in the sport of Cross Country Skiing at Home in the 2010 […]

Mosher second in para-snowboard World Cups
IPC abandons disabled athlete classifications and bases results on raw time
by Andrew Mitchell
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When Whistler’s Tyler Mosher headed to the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Cup opener at Laandgraaf, Netherlands — an indoor event in one of the largest indoor ski areas in the world — his goal was to win.

In the end he had to settle for two second place finishes in the race, which featured a large […]